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Lamech, son of Methuselah converses with Abraham who also speaks in first and third person narratives.
This conflates separate sections of the Genesis Apocryphon. The work has distinct narrative blocks for Lamech/Noah and later for Abraham; it does not depict Lamech conversing with Abraham.
Full reasoning
The available scholarly descriptions of the Genesis Apocryphon describe it as a work with separate narrative sections, not a scene where Lamech and Abraham speak to each other.
- Matthias Weigold’s abstract on the text says that “Lamech, Noah, and Abram in turn act as first person narrator” and that the material before Abram consists of the Noah-birth account and the “Book of the Words of Noah.” That means these are successive narrative voices, not a dialogue between Lamech and Abraham.
- The Center for Online Judaic Studies summarizes the preserved columns more explicitly: columns 2–5 feature the Noah-birth story with Lamech as protagonist, columns 6–17 recount Noah’s story, and from column 18 the scroll tells the story of Abraham. That layout directly contradicts the claim that Lamech “converses with Abraham.”
So the article sentence appears to have merged true facts about the text’s different narrators into a false statement about a direct conversation between two figures who appear in different sections.
2 sources
- One Voice or Many? The Identity of the Narrators in Noah's Birth Story (1QapGen 1-5.27) and in the 'Book of the Words of Noah' (1QapGen 5.29-18.23) | EBSCOhost
Abstract: 'Lamech, Noah, and Abram in turn act as first person narrator... Focusing on the columns preceding the Abram story, it is shown that both the account of Noah's birth (1-5.27) and the Book of the Words of Noah (5.29-18.23) are basically narrated in the first person by Lamech and Noah, respectively.'
- Genesis Apocryphon, Lawrence H. Schiffman, Reclaiming the Dead Sea Scrolls, Jewish Publication Society, Philadelphia 1994. | Center for Online Judaic Studies
'Like I Enoch, this book contains a story of the miraculous birth of Noah except that the protagonist is Lamech, not Enoch (columns 2-5). Columns 6-17 recount the Flood story... From column 18 the scroll tells the story of Abraham.'